Wheel-tire.



Patented um. 28,1902.

H. BARNARD.

WHEEL TIRE.

Application led Apr. 21, 1902.)

- (No Modl.)

vNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY BARNARD, OF HAMILTON, CANADA.

WH EEL-TIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,033, dated October 28, 1902.'

Application filed April 2l, 1902.

Serial No. 103,886. (No model.)

' county of Wentworth and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wheel-Tires and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in wheel-tires in which a continuous metal band f is inside a continuous fabric covering and surmounted by a filling of cork as a core and the whole covered with a rubber covering vulcanized to the same, as shown.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a wheel-tire which shall be substantial and durable to suit all manner of vehicles; second, to provide a tire to contain and to retain a band or a channelband to strengthen the tire transversely and lengthwise and to prevent stretching or creeping of the material which goes to make up the tire; I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a sectional elevation of a wheel-tire, showing the continuous metal band in defined and proper position in the tire and the outer circle part of the tire engaged with a ground-line.

In the drawing the continuons metal baud is indicated by a, the fabric covering by b, the core by c, a-nd the outer covering by d. These several parts as respectivelyindicated by c, l), c, and d are substantially and firmly vulcanized together to form a durable tire, having a flat base for seating in the wheelfolly. The ground-line is indicated by e. The metal band a runs continuous with the tire. The tire is made in a straight strip or a continuous circle, the ends of the straight one being suitably fastened together on the wheel.

It will be obvious that the metal band a is positioned as near to the wheel-rim line 3 as kpossible in order to give strength to the part In testimony whereof I affix my signature l in presence of two witnesses. f

HARRY BARNARD.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. HENDRY, JOHN G. GAULD. 

